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Stories & Poems by a Guyanese Village Boy
Book Description This book is a compilation of 27 short stories and 17 poems written by Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad who was born in 1945 on Springlands Sugar Estate, Corentyne, Berbice in what was then the colonial territory of British Guiana. The stories in this book are based on real incidences and events that took place in the 1950's and early 1960's while the author was a young lad residing at No. 73 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, Guyana. The characters mentioned in the stories were real people though most of them are probably now deceased. This book was written in 2008 and it is based on the author's best recollections of events which occurred over 45 years ago. Due to the fact that four and a h...
Memory and Myth
This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption of the term 'religion' outside of a Western Enlightenment and Christian context should therefore be treated with caution. Within postcolonial literary criticism, there has been either a silencing of the category as a result of this caution or an uncritical and essentializing adoption of the term 'religion'. It is argued in the present study that a vital aspect of how writers articulate their histories of colonial contact, migration, slavery, and the re-forging of identities in the wake of these ...
Bibliography of Guyana & Guyanese Writers
"Here is the fifth edition of a solid reference guide to well over 4,300 books, 520 films, 215 documentaries in ten categories, 375 plays (theatrical, stage, radio, and television) and almost 70 anthologies spanning over four hundred years since 1596 when Sir Walter Ralegh’s volume on part of the country first appeared. Revised and enlarged to cover nearly 500 pages, it also includes select published material by Guyanese on a range of other subjects. This version contains the works of over 2,500 authors, filmmakers, playwrights, and documentarians and is comprehensively organized into an Index by Title and five Appendices (A- Classification by Category; B-Documentaries; C-Films; D-Plays; E-Anthologies)."--
Trauma
A collection of true and extraordinary stories that speak of the abuse suffered by Guyanese women, girls, and members of the LGBT community both in their native country and after having emigrated to the United States. Through carefully crafted prose and poetic undertones, the author, Elizabeth Jaikaran, reveals accounts of the horrific violence and trauma through the lens of Guyanese culture and history. Along with these stories are points of fact, gathered from newspapers, agency studies, and governmental records, that illustrate the far-reaching existence and impact of violence and strict cultural norms. Also on display in these stories is the strength and resilience of Guyanese women as they have struggled to survive and flourish. This story of a small and often overlooked culture has needed to be told, and Jaikaran tells it with amazing courage and grace.
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective.
Blood and Fire!
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The Guyanese Wanderer
First-ever story collection from this distinquished post-colonial writer with international reputation.
Georgetown Journal
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The Intended
Exploring rites of passage in London's Asian community, this semiautobiographical novel follows a young Indo-Guyanese narrator from his South American village to Great Britain. With determination and self-discipline he seizes opportunities of education and upward mobility, but struggles to keep his cultural identity alive through memories of his childhood. This sophisticated postcolonial text links language and character to reveal the social divisions, educational obstacles, and self-exploration of a struggling foreigner in the mid-20th century.
